we attempt to land in a peaceable manner, if this succeeds its well, if not we land nevertheless and maintain the footing we thus got by the Superiority of our fire arms, in what other light can they than at first look upon us but as invaders of their Country.
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"I have seen no inland part of any country so barren as this."
"Our knowledge is a little island in a great ocean of nonknowledge."
"I have taken possession of this land for His Majesty King George III, despite the natives' claims."
"They may appear human, but they are scarcely above brutes in their way of living."
"Sauerkraut is of such excellent use at sea that it ought never to be omitted."
From his journal, a pragmatic yet self-aware observation on the nature of colonial encounters and the perception of indigenous peoples.
Date: 1774 (after a violent encounter)
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